Godfrey v. Iowa Land & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the United States Oowt for the Western District of the Indian Territory, at Muskogee; Wm. B. Lawrence, Judge. Action by T. T. Godfrey against the Iowa Land & Trust Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. On the 10th day of April, A. D. 1906, the plaintiff in error, as plaintiff in the court below, filed his first amended complaint against the defendant in error, the defendant in said court, seeking to have a certain deed declared a mortgage.
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Error from the United States Oowt for the Western District of the Indian Territory, at Muskogee; Wm. B. Lawrence, Judge. Action by T. T. Godfrey against the Iowa Land & Trust Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. On the 10th day of April, A. D. 1906, the plaintiff in error, as plaintiff in the court below, filed his first amended complaint against the defendant in error, the defendant in said court, seeking to have a certain deed declared a mortgage. Reference herein will be made to the parties as they appeared in the court below. Plaintiff, as a resident of the state…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The question to be adjudicated in this case is whether or not a citizen of the Seminole Nation, not of Indian blood, after selecting his allotment and receiving his certificate of allotment from the chairman of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, as provided for by the agreement of the 16th day of December, A. D. 1897_, on the part of the Seminole Nation of Indians with the United States of America, ratified by an act of Congress, approved on the 1st day of July, 1898 (30 Stat. 567, c. 542; 1 Kappler’s, Indian Affairs, Laws, and Treaties [2d Ed.]…
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